Building trusting relations among teachers, parents, a community and school administrators is important when schools enter decision-making processes about programs of choice.
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A study finds that graduates who attended publicly funded schools were more likely to have open intercultural orientations than those who attended private schools.
Different views of gentrification drive divisions that keep school activists separated by race.
Inspired by her own experience with the education system, a professor of sociology explores how race and racism influence school choice and education.
Charter school enrollment grew during the pandemic. But behind these schools’ rising popularity is a history of harsh discipline, inaccessibility and targeted marketing.
Howard Fuller’s support for school choice is connected to the Black Power movement and a pursuit to provide Black students a quality education by any means necessary.
Long distances often preclude families in the Motor City from sending their kids to the best schools in the area, new research shows.
Letting parents choose which school their child attends positions parents as consumers, and often diverts students and funding away from public schools.
The push to expand charter schools in the U.S. contributed to a robust movement of teachers’ unions and allies demanding a well-resourced public school system.
More choice and greater information can allow parents to make more informed decisions.
First, the United Conservative Party lifted the cap on charter schools, and now new legislation has cut school boards out of the process to establish a charter school.
A scholar of multicultural education says the COVID-19 pandemic gives parents of color the chance to choose what their children learn at home.
A team of researchers have developed a method in which Australian children can have access to schools outside their catchment area.
Australian parents rely on a number of factors to choose a school for their child. These include school performance, location and social connections.
There’s no evidence that private schools produce better results than state schools for equivalent pupils.
Over the past few decades secondary schools have become larger and fewer in number. For parents, this had made choices at once more limited, but also more complicated.
Australia is in the midst of a population boom. But Catholic school enrolments have been decreasing since 2013.
Research over the past few years has shown vouchers for private schools set back student learning. So why are advocates still pushing so hard to expand them?
Though his education initiative staggered while he was in office, the late former President George H.W. Bush had an influence that continues to shape education policy, an education historian says.
Although many feared that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would destroy public education, a review of the past two years shows that much of her policy agenda has failed.
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Professor of Education, Sheffield Institute of Education, Sheffield Hallam University
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Professor, Education Policy & Law; Director, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor of Law, University of South Carolina
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Adjunct associate professor, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Professor in Public Policy and Management, The Open University
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Lecturer in Secondary English Education/Research Associate, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Economics, University of Bristol
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Director of Research and Deputy Head of Southampton Education School, University of Southampton
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Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Memphis
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Education Policy, Victoria University
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Victoria University
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Leader of the Education Policy and Leadership Unit, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Cornell University
